Data Loss, Liminal Spaces, Chatrooms

I was working on a lengthy blog post about chatrooms and just venturing around the internet trying to find something interesting to write about. However, I was using Ghostwriter, like I always do, to write up my drafts. I ended up accidentally closing the program window. No dialog popup, no warning, it just said "sure, boss" and dutifully closed. All progress lost1. I remembered that Ghostwriter still holds on to unsaved drafts at (flatpak) location: ~/.var/app/org.kde.ghostwriter/data/ghostwriter/backups So I rushed there (I've been down this road a year before). Aaaaand, no cigar. It did have a backup for a miscellaneous post I never ended up using. Ah well, such is life. I did an honest attempt at trying to reconstruct the entirety of that post from memory, but I just sort of gave up and felt pretty defeated. So this post is bastardized version of the original. In the post-that-could-have-been, I talked about some bizarre desire to hop on chatrooms. At first I thought maybe I was…